bomb
/bɔm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.60 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Dated
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Archaic
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Archaic
noun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb."
- "During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes."
- "If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction."
- ""The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said."
- "Mr. Gaetz’s loyalty to Mr. Trump, and willingness to toss proverbial bombs in Washington’s corridors of power, has shown no bounds, at least in public."
- "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there"
Etymology
Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor. Latin bombusder. Italian bombabor. French bombebor. English bomb From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɔm/
- British English: /bɒm/
Usage
- Dated
- Archaic
- Colloquial
- Indian usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
- American usage
- Informal
Inflected Forms
bombs (plural)
bombs (present, singular)
bombing (participle, present)
bombed (participle, past)
bombed (past)
more bomb (comparative)
most bomb (superlative)
the Bomb (canonical)